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2024-01-12 10:46

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

Event id #3364 : BCC Party #18

<Post edited by TheRyk on 19/2-2024 23:46>

Hey party animals and remote competitors!

As it's only 6 more weeks, here is some more info.

General info:
Everything went surprisingly well last time at the new location c-base, Rungestr. 20, Berlin, near station 'Jannowitzbrücke' -> hence, there's not much reason for changes. Mostly our idea is doing much just as in last April.

So my "In a nutshell" from #17 is only slightly changed for #18:
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- Free admission, but donations welcome! <- as usual
- Limited amount of space -> 70 guests -> Please REGISTER (not online yet) or just add yourself here on CSDb as attendant or drop me a PM.
- Even less space for hardware -> Tell if you bring CRT or only Laptop or nothing
- Compos will be streamed (probably again on Twitch, thanks to Charlie and Function Party Channel)
- Officially we can not allow sleeping at the party place due to German fire safety regulations
- Free coffee, tea, water around the clock
- Drinks at the c-base bar at fair prices
- various international takeaways and restaurants just around the corner
- Smoking outdoors only -> don't make more noise than necessary
- In general, be nice guys - not only but especially when you're dealing with c-base Staff or BCC orgas

Bring:
- power strips
- extension cord
- C64 / laptop / ...
- cash for the bar
- BBQ canceled officially... of course you can spontaneously have one if you care for everything yourselves

DON'T bring
- pets
- boomboxes
- party lights

Some details:
-------------------

Food: There's enough fast food temples just around the corner, so no one's gonna starve.

Drink: Same as last year, the c-base bar is happy to sell you drinks (beer & soft drinks) at fair prices, bringing own booze _is_! tolerated, however.

Sleep: Same ol situation, by national and regional fire security law, we can not officially allow to sleep at the party place. However, hotel situation in Berlin is way better in late Feb than in late April (last time the Mayday <- the holiday, not the C=64 group caused rather tight booking and thus high prices). The earlier you book, the better. For example, a very close hotel is the Social Hub, some hipster co-working space place, kinda expensive but quite nice and just 10 minutes walk (of course depending on how fit/drunk you are, ask Röly...). You find cheaper alternatives if you're ok with using public mass transport (which operates all night long in Berlin at weekends).

Smoking: Outside. Keep doors shut to save energy and reduce noise emission.

Entrance free: Please donate some bucks to c-base and BCC and/or just help by buying a lot of drinks at the bar.

Bringing own hardware Though the universe might be endless, space _IS_ limited in the spaceship c-base... My guess is, last time, around 3 dozen C= systems with CRT were built up, much more won't be possible. If e.g. the Padua Bavarians want to reserve one of the round tables again, just tell us so as early as possible.

Competitions:
----------------------------

We plan to use wuhu party system (not online yet) again, so no matter if you compete live or remote, you'll be needing votekeys and try to get your entry online yourselves. Of course we'll help you if necessary.

Once again, we are going to offer pretty much the same categories as last time, i.e.
- C64 Demo
- C64 One-Filed-Demo
- C64 Gfx (any C64 gfx that ain't PETSCII)
- C64 PETSCII Gfx
- C64 Cover Music
- C64 Original Music
- C64 Games
- C64 Mixed (stuff that needs anything that can't be considered C64 vanilla, such as FM-YAM, C64 DTV, You-name-it)
- Other 8-bit-Platforms (be aware you should contact us early to make sure we can show your entry,
we've got a lot of hardware but we need to know what you bring yourself or want us to provide,
showing a mere .MP4 video should really be the total emergency exception).

Depending on the amount of entries for a category, we might decide to split or merge categories.
EXCEPTION!!!C64 Demo (multi-filed, i.e. anything which does not fit into 1 64k file) remains own category no matter how few entries we get. We know, there are pros (not comparing apples and oranges) and cons (A demo is a demo is a demo...) of this policy. This was also discussed after X-Party and I also got PMs on CSDb and had IRC chats on the topic. We understand both views and considered all points made but we decided to keep Trackmos/Megademos apart from Onefilers.

All entries are planned to be streamed and will be made accessible on CSDb.dk after the event.
We reserve the right to refuse entries, e.g. if they clearly violate national or international law,
so no pornographic content, no nazi stuff - use common sense.

All deadlines will be Sat 24th of Feb 2023, high noon, 11:59:59 am CET.

Time enough to finish your entries or even start from scratch, so get going! :)

Looking forward to your entries and to party with you again!

Cheers
TheRyk for BCC Orga Team

2024-01-13 02:54

Dano

Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 227

Weasel and i might come, depending on Toggle to come. :)

So yeah, having that round table of the rulers again would be sweet. :)

2024-01-13 11:04

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

Great news, so the Bavarian Restaurant Padua knights and Sir Toggle the Pure of the round table will get that table reservation again =D

2024-01-14 06:21

Hate Bush

Registered: Jul 2002
Posts: 456

after reading the op, i'm impressed - must be the loosest, friendliest party around. i'm seriously considering a trip to Berlin o_O

2024-01-14 21:20

Dano

Registered: Jul 2004
Posts: 227

@Ryk: I guess i need to revoke the Padua attendence sadly. Today i got an invitation to a 90th birthday i need to attend right on the 24th.

And Toggle seems to be buried in work aswell..

2024-01-15 11:04

Krill

Registered: Apr 2002
Posts: 2854

Quoting Hate Bush

after reading the op, i'm impressed - must be the loosest, friendliest party around. i'm seriously considering a trip to Berlin o_O

Take note, though, that you cannot sleep at the party place.

Which, imho, somewhat sets it apart from other demo parties in... exactly the same city. =)

2024-01-16 23:12

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

In public it makes no sense to make statements explicitly violating regional and/or national law. In practice, however, we've always solved problems without breaking the law :)

Solutions could be
- some Berliner takes you to his home
- someone else gives someone (drunk) his hotel room... (Hello *censored*...)
- emergency: If you're very lucky: nobody sleeps, nobody is in danger to burn => German fire safety regulations (which are - unlike other German beauraucracy - there for a reason, just BTW) ain't violated, but NO PROMISES. DON'T RELY on that, and it definetely means less sleep 4 HIP = halfways important ppl (=orgas, and if orgas fail, whole party may suffer) so we'd prefer if you go for the official way & find/organize accomodation yourselves...

Bottom line: We expect you to organize accomodation (i.e. sleep/hotel/dorm/hostel/under the bridge/you-name-it) yourselves. However, don't worry too much, if accompdation is your only reason not to attend, just drop me or even better Thunder.Bird a PM (we're ready to help!) BEFORE(!) you book your banana boat from Molwania...

2024-02-03 23:46

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

Just a reminder: 3 more weeks to polish your releases!

Compo System Wuhu for your uploads will be online in a fortnight +/-

Cheers
Ryk

PS: I've witnessed a lot of cool stuff being released on CSDb recently - without any link to any event. So: Even if you're working han-solo or have some cool almost-done stuff rotting on your hard drives or floppy disks, consider not to burn your stuff out of any competition, safe it for BCC for all the extra attention it will get by an expert tipsy live jury and the drunk streaming sofa public! Imagine the fame! ;)

2024-02-07 22:58

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

Quoting TheRyk

Just a reminder: ...

Compo System Wuhu for your uploads will be online in a fortnight +/-
...

To be crystal clear, it is _NOT_ running _YET_ though an old prompt in the registration form on c64clubberlin.de might tell you "WuHu will open automatically"

We've got an orga video chat this weekend, so don't delete your releases or send them to another party, keep or polish themm, there'll be enough time to upload them within the deadline. :D

2024-02-11 21:34

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

OK, sorry 4 having kept you waiting longer than we had planned (real life...), good news: _NOW!_ we're ready and online :) Thanks to Charlie (Wuhu, Streaming), Thunder.Bird (club homepage and votekey service team), also to the rest of this year's Orga Staff hoeppie and Brainstorm!

No matter if you want to attend in person or "only" upload your remote entires, please be so kind as to fill out this form:
https://c64clubberlin.de/?p=6894

Having done this and clicking the "OK" button, will redirect you here:
https://party.c64clubberlin.de/
By doing so (even if you have already done so before I posted this, then you just have to wait a little), you _ARE_ already on our list and about to be mailed a VOTEKEY which you need for https://party.c64clubberlin.de/index.php?page=Login (REGISTER). With your VOTEKEY, fill that form as well with User/Password/Password(confirm)/VOTEKEY/Handle/Group and you're in! From now on you can login with User+Password to upload/edit your entries (until Deadline) or use other fancy functions of BCC#18 wuhu.

If anything remained unclear/doesn't work out or takes too long, PM me!

Looking 4wd to your entries & to partying with you again!
Cheers,

TheRyk for BCC Orga Team

2024-02-19 21:19

TheRyk

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 2084

<Post edited by TheRyk on 19/2-2024 23:36>

Now here's after long debates a timetable not so different from last year :)

Note all times are CET!

FRIDAY
15:41 Gates opening, guests build-up gear
19:00 Warming-Up Party (with Music/Demos)
20:30 Official BCC#18 Welcome Speech TheRyk
20:45 Introducing c-base by StarPeak
21:00 SID-Karaoke
22:00 Party-Time

SATURDAY
10:00 Last-minute polishing of productions at seminar room OPTIONAL
12:00 Deadline for all Compos
13:00 Lunch (around c-base)
14:30 Hardware Release by GI-Joe
15:00 Gaming Compo
17:00 Showing new and old demos
18:30 Dinner (around c-base)
20:15 Compo-Block #1 (including 1 cigarette break) All GFX Compos & WiLD & SID Covers/Remixes
21:30 Compo-Block #2(including cigarette/wee breaks) Original SID Music, One-Filed Demo, TrackMo
23:00 Complete/Revise-Voting-Party (with Music/Demos)
23:30 Voting CLOSES
00:00 Results Announcement - Prize-Giving
00:15 Party All Night Long

SUNDAY
10:00 Chillout/Hangover Party
??:?? Bye-bye... / Packing Things / Cleaning-Up
-> See you at BCC#19 - or at another party!

5 more days, Gabbo, Gabbo, Gabbo!
Cheers
TheRyk for BCC Orga Team

PS: Don't forget to upload your remote entries ASAP (unless you need the thrill to upload 1 minute before deadline) ;)

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